ALLENTOWN, Pa. – You may recognize the star of the hit Netflix series “Julie and the Phantoms.” That’s because actress Madison Reyes is a resident of Allentown.<\/p>\n
She plays the title character Julie, a teenager who rekindles her passion for music with the help of a group of ghostly musicians. The show is based on the Brazilian TV series of the same name.<\/p>\n
Reyes was born in Brooklyn, but moved to the Lehigh Valley six years ago.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old says it wasn’t until she moved to Pennsylvania that she started to take acting and music seriously. She says landing the role of Julie has been a dream come true.<\/p>\n
“To be part of this community now and be another voice for the Latin community is so amazing because I know how it is to grow up without that representation and that lack of diversity in teenage films,” Reyes said.<\/p>\n
The show premiered last week on Netflix, along with its soundtrack.\u00a0Reyes sings in both, and would like to one day do a tour in support of the album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – You may recognize the star of the hit Netflix series “Julie and the Phantoms.” That’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,59310,6561,68383,157,68382,3548,28],"class_list":["post-149751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-brooklyn","tag-culture-of-allentown","tag-julie-and-the-phantoms","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-madison-reyes","tag-netflix","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}